Red Haired Woman by Harry Wilson Coate (OH/NY, 1872-??), oil on canvas, signed, dated 1919, unframed - 26" x 32" 
 
Harry Wilson Coate (aka Hiram W. Coate) was born in Ogden, Ohio in 1872.  I could find nothing on his art education but did learn that by 1900 he was a lithographer in NYC.  He also lived in Rome from 1902 to 1903, and in Paris from 1903 to 1904. He later worked as a newspaper artist in in New York in 1910.  His work was shown at the 9th Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute (1904) and at its 11th Annual Exhibition (1907).  In 1907, the publication American Art News described a painting by Coate at the 11th Annual Exhibition as such, "Harry W. Coate, a new man to American art lovers - and who sows one of the best canvases in the display, a full-length portriat of a girl - strong and full in color and strong, simple and broad in treament." He also exhibited artwork at the National Academy of Design's 1906 Winter Exhibition, and, more importantly, in the International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913, the first exhibition put together by the Armory Show. The International Exhibition of Modern Art was the first major exhibition of European modern art in the United States (gradually the moniker, the Armory Show supplanted the longer, official title). Records indicate that as late as 1920 he was still painting and living in NYC.  After 1920 I could find nothing on his living or existence.